Mailscanner runs <DEFUNCT>
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 13 16:58:00 IST 2004
At 04:37 14/05/2004, you wrote:
>MailScanner 4.30 is always running at least 1 or more defunct processes.
>We dont see this issue very often in 4.29 installed on our other servers.
>Whats causing Mailscanner to <defunct> all the time.
>
>If i set the child processes to 2 in MailScanner.conf i see 2 defunct
>processes and 3 running normally. When i select 2 why are their 5
>processes anyway?
Don't worry about the defunct ones, they are regularly harvested. It is
faster to harvest them all at once and not one at a time. You will find the
process ids of the defunct processes should keep changing, as they are
"new" defunct processes.
This is quite normal, and it makes MailScanner go noticeably quicker.
>
>root 21783 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? Z 07:26 0:00
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>root 21806 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? Z 07:26 0:00
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>root 19542 0.0 1.3 15812 14280 ? S 07:23 0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /e
>root 19543 1.2 2.9 31288 29708 ? S 07:23 0:02
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /e
>root 19563 1.5 2.9 31292 29716 ? S 07:23 0:03
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /e
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